1990–91 Guatemalan general election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 11 November 1990.[1] with a second round of the presidential election held on 6 January 1991. The presidential election resulted in a victory for Jorge Antonio Elías of the Movement of Action in Solidarity, whilst the National Centre Union won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 56.4% in the elections on 11 November 1990 and 45.2% in the elections on 6 January 1991.
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Results
President
Candidate | Running mate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
Jorge Carpio Nicolle | Manuel Francisco Ayau Cordón | National Centre Union | 399,777 | 25.72 | 438,990 | 31.92 | |
Jorge Serrano Elías | Gustavo Espina | Movement of Action in Solidarity | 375,165 | 24.14 | 936,389 | 68.08 | |
Luis Alfonso Cabrera Hidalgo | Marco Antonio Villamar Contreras | Guatemalan Christian Democracy | 271,933 | 17.50 | |||
Álvaro Arzú | Fraterno Vila Betoret | National Advancement Party | 268,796 | 17.29 | |||
Luis Ernesto Sosa Ávila | Luis David Arturo Eskenasy Cruz | MLN–FAN | 74,825 | 4.81 | |||
René Armando de León Schlotter | Aracely Mercedes Conde Aguilar de Paiz | PSD–AP5 | 55,819 | 3.59 | |||
José Ángel Lee Duarte | Carlos Francisco Gallardo Flores | Revolutionary Party | 33,429 | 2.15 | |||
José Ramón Fernández González | José Adolfo Putzeys Pacheco | Democratic Party of National Cooperation | 32,325 | 2.08 | |||
Manuel Benedicto Lucas García | Héctor Antonio Guerra Pedroza | Emerging Movement of Harmony | 16,894 | 1.09 | |||
Fernando Antonio Leal Estévez | Kurt Martín Meyer Rodas | National Renewal Party | 11,052 | 0.71 | |||
Leonel Hernández Cardona | Raúl Horacio Montenegro Castellanos | United Front of the Revolution | 7,957 | 0.51 | |||
Jorge Antonio Reyna Castillo | Carlos Antonio Torres Herrera | Democratic Party | 6,341 | 0.41 | |||
Total | 1,554,313 | 100.00 | 1,375,379 | 100.00 | |||
Valid votes | 1,554,313 | 85.93 | 1,375,379 | 94.89 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 254,488 | 14.07 | 74,110 | 5.11 | |||
Total votes | 1,808,801 | 100.00 | 1,449,489 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 3,204,955 | 56.44 | 3,204,955 | 45.23 | |||
Source: Nohlen, Rosón |
Congress
Party | District | PR | Total seats | ||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
National Centre Union | 357,528 | 22.28 | 33 | 399,679 | 25.72 | 8 | 41 |
Guatemalan Christian Democracy | 276,072 | 17.21 | 21 | 271,842 | 17.49 | 6 | 27 |
National Advancement Party | 233,559 | 14.56 | 7 | 268,776 | 17.29 | 5 | 12 |
Movement of Action in Solidarity | 225,031 | 14.02 | 10 | 375,119 | 24.14 | 8 | 18 |
FRG-PID-FUN | 201,401 | 12.55 | 12 | – | – | – | 12 |
National Liberation Movement | 83,738 | 5.22 | 3 | – | – | – | 3 |
PSD-AP5 | 64,633 | 4.03 | 0 | 55,804 | 3.59 | 1 | 1 |
Revolutionary Party | 50,547 | 3.15 | 1 | 33,417 | 2.15 | 0 | 1 |
Democratic Party of National Cooperation | 24,750 | 1.54 | 0 | 32,297 | 2.08 | 0 | 0 |
National Renewal Party | 17,386 | 1.08 | 0 | 11,025 | 0.71 | 0 | 0 |
United Front of the Revolution | 16,808 | 1.05 | 0 | 7,950 | 0.51 | 0 | 0 |
Democratic Party | 13,284 | 0.83 | 0 | 6,413 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 |
PID-FUR-FRG | 11,923 | 0.74 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Emerging Movement of Harmony | 10,759 | 0.67 | 0 | 16,915 | 1.09 | 0 | 0 |
MLN-FAN | 4,381 | 0.27 | 0 | 74,994 | 4.83 | 1 | 1 |
Organised Nationalist Union | 3,422 | 0.21 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Popular Alliance 5 | 2,521 | 0.16 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Democratic Social Party | 2,204 | 0.14 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Guatemalan Republican Front | 1,875 | 0.12 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
National Progress Front | 1,684 | 0.10 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Progressive Liberating Party | 590 | 0.04 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
FUN-PID | 447 | 0.03 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
PNR-MEC | 320 | 0.02 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 196,733 | – | – | 254,487 | – | – | – |
Total | 1,801,596 | 56.21 | 87 | 1,808,718 | 56.44 | 29 | 116 |
References
- Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6
Bibliography
- Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
- Political handbook of the world 1990. New York, 1991.
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